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any other purpose than to liquidate the notes or certificates
of indebtedness and pay the interest thereon issued for the
costs and the necessary expenses in the construction of side-
walks, curbs, gutters and roadbed and street improvements,
including the necessary expenses incident thereto. The certi-
ficates when paid shall be cancelled and properly kept and
filed among the papers of said Town. The record shown for
certificates thus cancelled shall be entered upon a book kept
for the purpose aforesaid.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That when the Mayor
and Common Council shall have determined to construct
sidewalks, curbs, gutters, or roadbed and street improvements,
or all or any, in any street or streets in said Town, they shall
thereupon notify, as far as practicable, each property owner
upon each street proposed to be improved, by depositing in
the United States Post Office, postage prepaid, in a sealed
envelope addressed to such owner's last known address, a
notice, and by publishing said notice in one or more of the
newspapers having general circulation in the Town of Col-
lege Park, setting forth therein the kind of sidewalk, curb,
gutter, roadbed and street improvements, or all or any of
them, in any street in said Town the Mayor and Common
Council have determined to improve; the place, date and
time it will meet to hear such owners, which shall be not
less than ten days from the mailing of such notices, and noti-
fying said owners to appear at said meeting and express their
views upon the question or show cause, if any there be, why
the improvements should not be made; and the decision made
by the Mayor and Common Council at said meeting shall be
final and conclusive; provided, however, that no street im-
provement to be paid for by special assessments shall be made
under this Charter, unless and until the previous consent
in writing of the owners of 51% of the abutting lots on each
street so proposed to be improved shall be filed with the Clerk
of the Mayor and Common Council.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Common Council are hereby authorized to make such side-
walks, curbs, gutters, roadbed and street improvements as
determined and authorized in accordance with the provisions
of this Charter and where work is done under contract the
Mayor and Common Council shall invite proposals for said
work by advertisement for two weeks in some newspaper
having general circulation in the Town of College Park, at
such reasonable cost for advertising as the Mayor and Com-
mon Council shall determine, and the said Mayor and Common
Council shall, in all cases, award the contract for such work
to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, reserving at all times